Iberia

Reading notes

• The Odes §1.29 Iberian breastplates

  Spanish armor, for which Iccius would trade his books.

• The Odes §3.14 Spanish

  The shore from which Caesar comes home victorious.

• The Odes §4.5 Iberia

  'Fierce Iberia,' whose war troubles no one under the peace.

• The Odes §4.14 Iberia

  'Hardy Iberia,' whose land hears the princeps.

• The Epodes §5 Hiberia

  A land rich in poisonous herbs (the Caucasian Iberia, or Spain), paired with Iolcos as a source of witches' drugs.

• The Satires §2.8 the Iberian fish

  Spain (Iberia), whose fish supplied the juices for garum, the fermented fish-sauce in Nasidienus's elaborate recipe.